Blipping In Bed On A Saturday Night
Saturday, July 11, 2009 
I'm just not in the mood, you know? You know. Sometimes you just don't want to.
No, I'm not talking about sex, although I could see how you might have thought that, seeing as how I'm being so fecking vague.
Specifically, I'm not in the mood to do anything at all. Black and white photographs of bridges are suddenly terribly poignant.
The world tired me out so much today with all its heavinesss and shoutiness this afternoon that I nearly fell asleep walking home. I was with a friend, and one moment we were crossing the street, and then everything disappeared for a few moments, or at least it must have, because suddenly I felt like I had just woken up mid-step on the other side of the street. I was delivered out of the black and back onto the street just like that. My feet seemed to know what they were doing, anyway.
So, as an alternative to seeing that sodden mess we agree to call reality, I am sitting in bed listening to nostalgic reruns of my teenage and early twenties mixed tapes on Blip.fm. Shut up. This is not pathetic. It's healthy as all hell.
What put me here? I'm blaming my bloody mercurial constitution. Not to worry, though. I've got some pizza and salad to put my remaining energies into, and I also have a cat to coddle after an unfortunate, accidental punching incident this morning.
Hey, I've got an idea. My brain is highly opposed to thinking at the moment, and I've run out of songs to listen to. What did you listen to during your formative years?
Hit me in the comments. I'm itchy to blip.
Reader Comments (12)
I have a mix of 70's disco, funk, and bubblegum pop, and 80's new wave with some rock n roll mixed in. Enjoy! Or, depending, Sorry! :) I'm always tracking down obscure things I heard on the radio while growing up.
Some from my blip list:
Electric Light Orchestra – Strange Magic
Bee Gees – You should be dancing
Silver Convention – Get Up & Boogie
K.C. & The Sunshine Band – Keep It Comin’ Love
The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the sky
Neil Diamond – Cracklin' Rosie
Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone
Earth Wind And Fire – Boogie Wonderland
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George Harrison – Give Me Love
David Bowie – Under Pressure (W/ Queen)
Linda Ronstadt – You're No Good
Three Dog Night – An Old Fashioned Love Song
B.J. Thomas – Hooked On A Feeling
the moody blues – the voice
The Doobie Brothers – Takin' It to the Streets
Buffalo Springfield – Everydays
The Beatles - Across The Universe
Stevie Wonder – Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Elton John – Rocketman
Eddie Rabbit – I Love A Rainy Night
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foundations - why do you build me up buttercup baby
Earth Wind & Fire -- Let's Groove tonight
Stevie Wonder – Sir Duke
Prince & the Revolution – Raspberry Beret
The Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
Maxine Nightingale – Right Back Where We Started From
Taste of Honey -- Boohie Oogie Oogie
Minnie Ripperton -- Loving You (Is Easy Cause You're Beautiful)
Holy crap, woman! That's a few. I'm off to blip some more. Thanks.
Well, a little OCD kicked in and I had to go make a list. Cut n paste, baby. :) I'm sure there's much more I haven't remembered or haven't found on blip.
Two soundtracks in particular - Romeo + Juliet and A Life Less Ordinary.
Also, everything by Simon & Garfunkel, ever.
Oh, and Jagged Little Pill, although I think that one was mandatory for every girl in my generation.
Joy Division - love will tear us apart
flutter, good one. That one is a perennial favourite.
That photograph is SO poignant. And by that I mean "poyn-yant" and not "poyant"...the way my friend says it. Drives me nuts.
Formative years? Late Beethoven.
College years? Bruce Springsteen
The Cure, the Cure, the Cure.
Also, did you take that picture?
oh dear god you got me with River Euphrates. Hearing it again provoked a perfect memory of the smell of cottonwood sap and outdoor latex paint.
also that bridge played an important part in my adolescence. I used to sit on the struts with my tie-dye skirts hanging out over the creek, waiting for something to happen.
My formative years were the late '60s - defined by the Beatles. Also loved James Taylor.
All Adither, I did take that picture. It's footbridge near where I live.